On 24 May 2012 06:15, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've met other groups of people who like a JIRA centric view > of the world. I suspect that if they did a bunch of other good things > called out below, you or others would find the JIRA business > digestible. Also, on the other hand, I fear that the co-employed > contributors are collaborating in the hallway, and the lack of the > context in JIRA or on the list is contributing to the problem. > > I'm not convinced that JIRA helps communities. It's great in companies -IDE integration, you can bounce issues to others, it pings your phone so often you can use it as a network liveness test. It also lets you persist discussions in a way that can be searched. In a busy project, it helps you keep track of your workload, and can assist in sprint planning if you fill in the est/actual workload fields. But -it encourages people to watch the issues they care about, and ignore the rest -it pushes you towards discussion-on-jira rather than in the mailing list -those discussions tend to be focused, rather than generic community chitchat about dev issues. When you compare it to the community of the pure-email list groups, or the "socialness" of github, JIRA seems to me that it pushes you towards antisocialism, to sit in your office and care only about the 8 JIRAs you have marked as in progress. Given the ubiquity and value of JIRA, what can be done here?
